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New Year Greetings and Pink Reptile Designs new gorgeous kit

I forget my manners!!! I showed you a scrap before I present you with my best wishes for the new year! So here you go! I wish you a wonderful, sweet and creative year 2012. The card below is not my design but it is the one I picked in the Japanese greetings card magazine I buy every year. They have gorgeous post card design for the new year. Yes indeed, the common size for Japanese new year greetings are those of a single post card. You have the address on the back and the design in front. I’ll show you soon what it looks like 😉 Anyway, no real resolutions for this year. I just want to move forward after the horrible 2011 and try to go back to exercise more. My back problem didn’t help much in that domain so I have to take care of that. I want to keep on designing of course and I’ll try to be better organised for that purpose 😉 I say that every year lol I just want to take it easy. That’s it! No pressure and 1 step at a time 😀

J’en oublie mes manières !!! Je vous ai montré une page de scrap avant de vous présenter mes meilleurs voeux pour la nouvelle année ! Alors ,voilà ! Je vous souhaite une merveilleuse, douce et créative année 2012. La carte ci-dessous n’est pas de ma création mais c’est celle que j’ai choisie dans le magazine de cartes postales de voeux que j’achète chaque année. Ils ont de superbes designs pour leurs cartes (postales) de voeux au Japon. Et oui en effet, au Japon le format des cartes de voeux est celui d’une simple carte postale. Vous avez l’adresse au verso et le dessin au recto. Je vous montrerai ce qu’il en est bientôt 😉 Sinon, et bien pas de résolutions particulières cette année. Je veux juste aller de l’avant après cette horrible année 2011 et essayer de refaire de l’exercice. Mes problèmes de dos n’ont pas beaucoup aidé dans ce domaine donc va falloir que je m’occupe de ça. Je veux continuer à créer bien sûr et je veux être mieux organisée dans ce but 😉 Je dis ça tous les ans ha ha ha. Je veux juste prendre mon temps. C’est tout ! Pas de pression et un pas à la fois 😀

Design by minoru

The second thing I want to show you is a page I made with Pink Reptile Designs new gorgeous kit. She made this kit for the DST January Gold Member Kit and it’s once again gorgeous!!!! I loooooooooooove the color scheme and I just knew right away what to scrap about. Hope you’ll like it.

La deuxième chose que je voulais vous montrer c’est cette page que j’ai faite avec le superbe nouveau kit de Pink Reptile Designs. Elle l’a fait pour le kit de janvier des membres Gold à DST et encore une fois c’est géniaaaaaal !!!! J’adooooore la palette de couleurs et j’ai su tout de suite ce que j’allais scraper. J’espère que vous aimerez.

English: My beautiful pen case and my organizer – This is not a simple pen case. It is the pen case I chose after the tsunami where all my work stuff was lost in the flood of my apartment. When I first went to a papery store after the disaster, it was love at first sight. I wanted color, I wanted to get back in better spirits while thinking of the days my life would be back on a more normal course and here we go. The organizer, I found it later and when I saw that cover I knew at once it was made for me. I wrote down my classes, my activities, my to do list for the week. And even though I don’t always respect my lists it’s always a pleasure to open my agenda and my beautiful pen case.

Credits :

Kit Noted by Pink Reptile Designs for DST January Gold Members
Template : Sea Charts Vol.3 by Ocean Wide Designs @ Zig Zag Scrap for the December/January Zig Zag Line
Font : Traveling Typewriter

Lynne-Marie Designs and Studio 68 Collab kit : IQ

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2 weeks ago I had the very nice surprise to see that LM has teamed up with another great designer I have the chance to know too : Studio 68. Sandra of Studio 68 is just so sweet and funny and soooo creative. I’m always apologizing for grabbing her stuff in the store so that I can play with it lol It’s hard to resist when you have so many gorgeous goodies at your reach, right? Thanks Sandra for baring with me all the time lol You rock! Anyway, this time again they made a fantastic job and it was a marvel to play with. And check Lynne-Marie’s blog cause there’s a gift waiting for you.

Il y 2 semaines j’ai eu la très bonne surprise de voir que LM avait fait équipe avec une autre super créatrice que j’ai la chance de connaître : Studio 68. Sandra de Studio 68 est tout simplement trop adorable et marrante et siiii talentueuse. Je suis toujours en train de m’excuser d’avoir piquer ses belles créas dans sa boutique pour pouvoir jouer avec ha ha ha C’est dur de résister quand on a à portée de main de si belles choses, n’est-ce pas ? Merci Sandra d’être si patiente avec moi ha ha ha You rock! Bon alors, cette fois encore elles ont fait un travail fabuleux et c’était un vrai bonheur de travailler avec. Et n’oubliez pas d’aller voir le blog de Lynne-Marie’s blog parce qu’elle a un cadeau pour vous.

English : Just a little foretaste of what will be school like. Too bad the nice teacher doesn’t live in Paris.

Credits : Photos by my friends

Kit Collab IQ by Lynne-Marie Designs & Studio 68 @ CatScrap
Template by Roadside Designs – Road To Sugar Hill Map Collection @ CatScrap
NB : Staple in the template
Font : Traveling Typewriter

Last scrap of 2011

Hi everyone! I’ve been away for about a week and I’m finally home trying to get better after a gastroenteritis hit me pretty bad in the night of Wednesday to Thursday. I spent half of my night visiting the toilets lol. I went to the closest hospital near our hotel the next morning and got a drip to re-hydate my body and some medicine so I feel much better now and even had a decent meal yesterday evening… I was just too hungry to keep drinking my sports drink lol. What an appropriate crappy way to end a crappy year, to say the least. We have to be positive and think that we got it all in 2011 so 2012 can only be better and it shall be great even, I think we deserved it!!! So, what a best way to end 2011 but make a page about it all. This is a double pager made with Brine Design great 52 project templates and it was very therapeutic to see that there was also some good in this terrible year. For those who wants to read you can see the translation at the bottom of this post. So enjoy and I’ll talk to you soon in 2012!! I hope you all have a wonderful New Year’s Eve!!! Take care!!

Bonjour tout le monde !! J’étais en déplacement pendant à peu près une semaine, et je suis enfin à la maison à essayer de me remettre d’une sale gastro qui m’a fait rendre visite aux toilettes la  moitié de la nuit de mercredi à jeudi lol. Je suis allée à l’hôpital le plus proche de notre hôtel le matin suivant et après une perfusion (de saline) pour réhydrater mon corps et des médicaments je me sens maintenant beaucoup mieux et j’ai même pu avoir un dîner potable hier soir. J’avais vraiment trop faim et je ne voulais plus avoir pour seule repas une boisson sportive ha ha ha. Quelle façon désastreuse et appropriée de finir une année désastreuse hein ?! Il faut être positifs tout de même et se dire que tout est arrivé en 2011 et que donc 2012 ne pourra être que meilleure, merveilleuse même car je crois que nous le méritons !! Alors, quelle meilleure façon de finir 2011 que d’en faire une page. Voici une double page faite grâce aux supers templates de Brine Design pour vos projets 52 semaines et c’était très thérapeutique de voir qu’il y avait aussi de bonnes choses dans cette année (je viens de remarquer les fautes mais tant pis je laisse comme ça pour le blog, je corrigerai sur le fichier original 😉 ). Bonne lecture et je vous dis à bientôt en 2012 !! J’espère que vous passerez un très bon réveillon !! Prenez soin de vous surtout !

Left / Gauche

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Right / Droite

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Credits :

Project 52 {Every Week Layered Template} by Brine Design @ ZZS
Blue paper and elements from kit Winter At The Window by ninigoesdigi @ ZZS
Patterned paper and green paper from Newsletter Gift Winter At The Window by ninigoesdigi
Font : Corbel for journal, Caviar Dreams for title

English translation of my journal:

2011 will have been marked by terrible events and will stay for a long time the worst for many of people as for me but in retrospect qnd despite the fear, the terror sometimes, the sadness and the discouragement too, I still will have some important moments left, strong and joyous ones too that I want to be remembered. They are moments that made me stronger or more optimistic despite the hard circumstances and I have to not forget them.
January: nothing special. Just a new year’s eve spent with a good friend and some good wishes for the new year in a Japanese shrine.
February: first day skiing in Japan and first time for Dong.
February/March: trip to France – we enjoy time with family, the gastronomie and beautiful strolls.
March 11th: the day where our lives, so many lives, fall over (I wasn’t sure what English to use for the French but I’m sure you’ll understand)
April: first visit in the Oshika Peninsula. Almost one month after the disaster and the reconstruction seems impossible.
May: first photos with my new camera. Again photos of the disaster but this is now and unfortunately my everyday life.
June: first photos that give back a smile. My friends organised a free meal distribution, and they had some gaes for the kids. Seeing those little ones smile and have fun innocently puts us back in good spirits.

July: a hot and humid summer like every other year but we did our best to participate to the food distributions in the most affected area of the town.
August: a month that starts in beauty thanks to the city annual fireworks, even though this one is teinted with a bitter-sweet note, it is a proof the town wants to go forward and is not giving up against the disaster. And also of course food distributions are still going on.
September: a little trip to Aomori perks us up. So much greenery and freshness after months in the dust feels really good.
October: a month marked with a very beautiful traditional event to put back the people of Ishinomaki in good spirits: traditional dances and music warm up the hearts.
November: another beautiful event to celebrate the renovation of a temple in one of the most affected district of the town. Lion dance, Japanese Taiko and mochi tsuki (steamed rice paste crushed with a wooden stick).
December: first snow – little trip to Mishima and Tokyo – and a gastroenteritis to end the year in style lol but hey, it didn’t stop me scraping this page so I’m not going to complain huh.